Hunting the Sea Otter (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Hunting the Sea OtterOwing to the more favourable conditions under which hunting could be prosecuted elsewhere, the whole of the American coast proper, that is from Lower California to Alaska, the extremities of the sea otter's range, has long been abandoned as a profitable hunting ground, such few skins as are still obtained would scarcely amount to one hundred annually, although Sir George Simpson, writing in 1841, states that since 1814 the Russians had sent to market the enormous number of eighty thousand sea otter skins from California alone.SO much for the state of affairs under Russian administra tion. Let us now see what the United States Government have done for the preservation of the sea otter and the protection of the natives who depend upon their barter as the only means of ameliorating the conditions under which they existed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.